Companies won't have to rely on manual monitoring of data to comply with the GDPR. Learn how legal tech solutions can help in analysing data protection processes.

According to a recent study , general counsels in the Nordics regard compliance with EU data protection rules as one of the greatest challenges the coming years. Under the general data protection regulation, companies will be required to be more transparent, to report breaches within 72 hours and to make sure consent is given clearly and affirmatively when data is processed with consent as legal basis - just to mention a few of the changes compared to the 1995 Data Protection Directive. The much talked about, potentially hefty, sanctions is of course another one.

Companies may also have to process a larger amount of requests and claims from data subjects and may have to revise their liability policies. Managing requests and monitoring data could be difficult or impossible due to the nature and amounts of data processed.